Dani Kaiser December 3, 2015 3rd period Sadness and Tragedy in Antigone and The Things They Carried Tinged with sadness and tragedy, both Antigone by Sophocles and The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien show reactions of characters to tragedies. These great moments of sadness in both books reveal the inner traits of many characters. In Antigone, Antigone reacts to her tragic life. In The Things They Carried, supporting character Mary Anne Bell reacts to the tragedy of war. The way the aforementioned
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In the book “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien it featured a character named Mary Anne Bell going through a transformation into a new character called the Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong. Mary Anne Bell was a very friendly girl, straight out of Cleveland Heights Senior High whereas the Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong, a character more determined and adapted to war decided to join the Green Berets because she loved the feel of the ambush and wore her human tongue trophies threaded along a copper
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The Things They Carried was a book written to teach you a lesson. Whether you learned a lesson was up to you. One thing Tim O’Brien was trying to teach us is that war is dirty. In the chapter “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” Rat Kiely says ”You come over clean and you get dirty and the afterward it’s never the same. A question of degree. Some make it intact, some don’t make it at all.” This quote stands true to every character in this novel but Tim O'Brien and Norman Bowker stand out to me the
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The Things They Carried Essay In the book, The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien, he tells many War Stories of the Vietnam War and his childhood. By telling the stories he can remember all of his past and his childhood but also his time at the Vietnam War. His stories are keeping his memories alive by writing them down. O'Brien's stories save himself because he enjoys creating stories. He also misses his childhood and his early adult life. He enjoys talking about the war and all of his occurrences
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let me just start by saying that I thought his speech was really interesting. I learned so many new and interesting things from him about the Vietnam War. Something I thought that was interesting was that the base was very secluded in the middle of a jungle. I would have thought that it would have been in a town or community. Something that was different from The Things They Carried was that in the book they were out on missions, but Mr. Adams worked a different job and stayed on base. In Faith of
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In Tim Obrien’s “The Things They Carried” several behaviors function as devices designed to avoid shame and/or guilt. Characters continually find themselves in situations where their performance is a response designed to minimize the obtaining of these emotions or the pain felt by them once obtained. Therefore, action is frequently inspired by the emotional burdens that guilt or shame present. Once category of behaviors inspired by guilt and shame in The Things They Carried includes adherence to
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left overseas. The memories still haunt him and many other of the men who made it home. His novel, The Things They Carried, describes Vietnam and all the things he encountered including the people he lost. Tim O’Brien is the author of The Things They Carried and 8 other books and short stories. O’Brien began writing these stories as a way to cope with all the leftover reminiscence of the things that happened
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inside” (O'Brien 4). As the Alpha company of soldiers carries a handful of memories and along with them, The Things They Carried gives a reason behind each thing the soldiers carry. Some things may contain sentimental value, while others are for health and fighting purposes. The soldiers have to deal with death and learn to persevere through the hardships. The theme of The Things They Carried is the physical and emotional effects of being a soldier
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together, it’s communion.”(Foster 8). That means even if you’re eating as a family or with a group of people, you’re all taking place in communion. One generally thinks communion is a practice that takes place only in churches. In the book The Things They Carried, O’Brien writes about communion as Foster defines. In one instance, they were sitting around in the hot sun and they were all taking salt tabs just to stay alive (O'Brien 185). O'Brien also says, "Late in the afternoon, just before dusk, Kiowa
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Whether people changed or their surrounding all components were affected by the brutal war. Not only soldiers changed, lost their innocence, or forgotten their home, over time, all people experienced these events. In Tim O’Brien’s novel, The Things They Carried, the women represent innocence, home and change. Women display these components before, during, and after the war. All of their connections to the war or men reflect upon their actions. Kathleen’s role represented home and innocence. She is
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